Introducing... Death Of An Artist
Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his artist wife Ana Mendieta?
Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved in the death of his up-and-coming artist wife Ana Mendieta? For over 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art worldβs most storied couples.
They were a textbook case of opposites attract. Andre was famous, rich, white, and within the small coterie of the artworld, powerful. Mendieta was a Cuban refugee, a woman, working at the edge of the Avant Garde. Just months after their wedding, Andre called 911 saying they had a fight and Mendieta βwent out the windowβ of their 34th floor apartment.
Andre was charged with murder and the art world split in two. Host Helen Molesworth revisits Mendietaβs death and the trial that followed, and interrogates both the silence and the protest that have accompanied this story ever since.
